Rice cake with sweet azuki bean paste

Sweet azuki bean paste

• 150 g dried adzuki beans, soaked for 4-24 hours
• 850 g water
• 50 g brown sugar

Rice cake

• 100 g white rice flour (seeTips)
• 125 g glutinous rice flour
  or 125 g rice flour sweet (see Variations)
• 60 g icing sugar (see Tips)
• 75 g full cream milk
• 15 g mixed dried fruit (e.g. raisins, apricots, peaches), cut into small pieces
• 1000 g water